Chapter 5, in which the Adventurers fight some cylopses

Roku Yarit
The "Smelly, Dirty, Old man" was careful to follow beyond the boundaries of their normal vision, skulking in shadows and alleys as the travellers walked on ahead. People regarded him with disgust and prejudice but he paid no mind to their petty banter and pointing fingers. "Maybe the ship should have crushed this city after all..."

Vodok
“'Ey 'o, 'ey 'o
to a dessert we go
a key we will fin'
an' leave no 'un behin'!!" The dwarf half sang, half yelled. The short dwarf stopped suddenly causing the person behind to nearly bump into him. He stuck his hand in the backpack and took out a beer. He held it in front of himself. "'is is strong stuff yeh know." he said to the group who didn’t seem to give a damn about a beer bottle. Red Un seemed a little interested though. The short dwarf took the bottle and drained it all in one go. Expecting some clapping he said "It aint 'at 'ard if yeh know a trick." he said while swaying around on his feet. "Evar noteiced 'at pigs seems 'o flyin' in a sky tarday." he said drunkly while still swaying on his feet.

Red Un
Red Un had started to wonder if the group he had gathered was really the best. These thoughts didn't go on for very long when he saw something on the bridge that was the border of the Thaian Kingdom. A large group of cyclopses had gathered. Some of them had picked up large stones, some were holding huge swords in their hands, and others were wearing large armours of steel. One of them yelled out something.

"Hoomans! Y not pass 'ere withoot payink tooll!"

Red Un looked back at the group.

"Alright people, looks like we have a fight on our hands. Since it would be hard even for our...amazing...team to defeat them, we need a strategy before we go any further. Any ideas?"

Dragon Hunter
Before anyone could react the dragon hunter had drawn his bow and fired an arrow that penetrated 2 cyc's and landed somewhere behind them. Both cyc's started to burn and where turned to ashes in a few seconds.
The dragon hunter put his bow away and drew his sword "Let's teach them not to mess with our group..." the dragon hunter said...

Vodok
The short dwarf put down his backpack and took up three great fire ball runes. "BURN!!! BURN I SAY!!" He yelled as he shot great fire balls at the whole group. Then an arrow bashed into the short dwarf, through his armour. "Ex- Exura vit- Exura vita" he got through his mouth. "Exura Vita Exura Vita." The dwarf was healed enough to keep on fighting. He took up some heavy magic missiles and threw to some members of the group. "FIRE!!" He yelled and everyone started to shoot heavy magic missiles. Some of the cyclopses dropped but there where still more left.
Red Un
Red Un shrugged his shoulders.

"So much for strategy..."

He drew his firesword and ran towards the enemy.

"Hey Vodok! Don't ya dare to take 'em on up close and personal?" he yelled as the cyclopses charged towards the group.

Vodok
"'ANNA BET???" He yelled. He took up about 10 mana fluids from his backpack that seemed to be more like an endless pit since it got all those stuff in it. He drank the mana fluids. "Utamo Vita" He said slowly and clearly. Then he put down his two handed sword and put two sudden death runes in his hands. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!!" He yelled as he ran forward sudden deathing like a manaiac. He drew up two new runes while constantly losing mana for the mana shield. He was totally surrounded at the moment. He figured that the only way to survive would be to: Fire bomb himself. He fire bombed himself. The cyclopses around him ran out of the fire while the short dwarf used a destroy field where he was standing. The again he started to sudden death like a maniac. "GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!! YOU FIENDS!! DIE!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA DIE DIE DIE!!!" He yelled while some cyclopses was shooting arrows against him, but he still had the mana shield on. He didn’t have too much mana left but most of the cyclopses would be dead when the mana was gone.

Dragon Hunter
The dragon hunter though he would join the fun and drew his sword and charged. As he reached the cyclopses he made a devastating whirlwind attack that killed several cyc's...

Red Un
Meanwhile, Red Un wondered how he always got into these kinds of situations. He swung his sword in a deadly arc, cutting two cyclopses in half by sheer force. Another one started burning when it was hit by the magic flame that was Red Un’s blade. Then he saw that Vodok was in trouble.

"Hang in there Vodok!"

Red Un saw a bunch of cyclopses that fired arrows at the dwarven magician. He ran towards them...

The cyclopses fired...

Red Un was in the arrows path...

He swung his sword in precise arcs, cutting each arrow out of the air before they reached Vodok. Except for one...

Roku Yarit
Roku Yarit watched the group do battle with little to no interest at all. This was but a distraction to the quest at hand. "Utana Vid" he muttered, keeping his voice from raising anymore then a whisper. He moved swiftly and silently and made his way around the cyclopses. He pulled a gray rune from his pocket and held it in his right hand. "Adori Vita Vis" the rune changed into the familiar form of the Sudden Death rune. Pointing it towards the closest cyc, It immediately died in a sort of gurgling pain. The last few became confused and made them huddle together. "Exevo mort hur." Energy sped across the ground and stuck the cyclopes dead with little effort. He had wasted too much time already, the invisibility would wear off soon. He began to run back behind Red Un and his companions, not paying attention to the noise he made as he ran.

Dragon Hunter
"AARRGGGHH!" and the dark warrior fell top the ground in pain. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!!!" he screamed right after.


Vodok
The arrow that kept on going that Red Un didn’t slice caught the short dwarf in his neck. The mana drained away fast but he had time to pick up his healing runes and heal like a lunatic. "OUCH!!!" He yelled out. The cyclopses where closing in on the short dwarf. He took out two fire wall runes and made sure no one could enter without being burnt. As you know the cyclopses would prefer to be trapped in fire than walk through it. The short dwarf was healed enough to stay on his hands and knees but no more. Now all of the cyclopses were dead. The short dwarf still felt as though he was losing more life. "Exana pox" He muttered and no one else heard it. Someone seemed to be chucking food at him so he ate it though he didn’t have that much energy left. "Exura" he said and it hardly worked since he had so low mana.

Dragon Hunter
As he stood up and saw Roku turn visible he stared at his surprised face. "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR YOU INCOMPETENT OLD FOOL!!" he burst out assuming Roku where the one who fired the energy wave. "CAN’T YOU AIM! AND A LITTLE TIP! DON’T BARBECUE THE GOOD GUYS!!!!!! AARRGGHHH!!!" he fell to the ground in pain again. He rose up once again and this time he didn’t scream, he mumbled "Ashaki Karakh self" and a healing light fell on him. And he immediately fell asleep...

Red Un
Red Un looked at what was left of the group of cyclopses.

"Great. We haven't even gotten outside Thais Kingdom, and already there is trouble..."

He heard a gurgle. One of the cyclopses was still (barely) alive. Red Un walked over to it. The cyclops had a large cut in the chest, and its eye was a pulpy mess.

"Yoo littul oones..."

Red Un bowed over the cyclops as it coughed up blood.

"Lisn' here, one-eye. Cyclopses doesn't gather like this unless someone threatens their mountain with a big army. And even though I have found out that my lill' group is indeed strong, there was no reason for ya to emerge from the mountain in the first place. So, my question is, who made you do it?"

The large beast spit blood in Red Uns face. Red Un stood calmly over him still.

"Tell me, or I will let you suffer some more before you die."

"Noo...'twas......a littul hooman...gave oos aul kinda...stoof to joose..."

"What human?!"

Silence.

"TELL ME!"

Still silence. The cyclops was dead. Damn, thought Red Un. Then he got another thought in his head. He walked over to the cyclops right arm. He removed the armour pieces from it. There was a tattoo that was all too familiar to him now. He quickly covered over the arm with the armour pieces again. Then he returned to where the rest of his group rested.